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Steam deck runs everything that I'd want to play on it locally, way better than remote streaming. It's punching way above it's weight class. I'm almost done with elden ring on it and I'll be moving to cyberpunk 2.0 if it's as good as people are saying
Hold the phone, better than streaming from a local beefy desktop?
Streaming is always worse than running natively.
Streaming is universally dog shit. I tried streaming elden ring and it was unplayable because of the latency. Meanwhile running locally I've put in 30+ hours.
Ah, shit. I guess streaming might work a bit better cabled though. Good thing it manages locally
Steam deck doesn't have as much horsepower as a modern gaming laptop does it? It's just very well preforming for the price?
I haven't bothered with gaming laptops in a while, but it seems like the work valve put into Proton is paying dividends. Steam deck is punching far above it's weight class. Apparently a lot of games now are running better in Linux via proton than natively in Windows, which is kind of mind boggling. I don't have to do any troubleshooting and everything runs great. I'd guess to get comparable performance on a laptop you'd have to spend 2-3x as much. Last time I used a gaming laptop it struggled on any 'current' games with lots of fuckery to get it running smooth.
But like I said, I've long been out of the gaming laptop scene because I just never found them worth the trouble. Steam deck is the opposite of that and I play it in favor of my PC more than I care to admit.